June 4/08 1:32 am - Inaugural Tour de Québec Announced

Posted by Editoress on 06/4/08

First Tour de QuébecPress releaseInaugural Tour de Québec is scheduled for September 2008 (4-7) in Quebec city region. Over 4 days, the senior men will ride the distance of 400km (1 prologue and four stages). Other categories will compete only over 2 days (6-7 September)

The Tour will start in downtown Quebec City where two riders will face each other over a 250m sprint on Rue St-Jean toward Place D'Youville. The first stage, will take to the roads of the Portneuf Region, where riders will have at least 2-3 KOM. The next day, the riders will put on a show with a morning and an nighttime criterium. The morning program will feature a criterium infront of the Quebec parliament and in Levis in the evening. The last stage will be a difficult circuit of 11km which the riders will have to do 13 times.

For this first edition, participants are expected from all across Canada and the United States as well as France and Belgium